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TruMan1
TruMan1

Reputation: 36138

Request parameters not recognizing & as separator

I have an HttpHandler that reads the parameters from the request URL by simply using context.Request["param1"]. The thing is that my website is xHTML compliant so all links are encoded. So I have a link in the format of: http://mydomain.com/?param1=a&param2=b.

The problem is that Request["param2"] is not recognized. Instead it thinks the second parameter is "amp;param2". It does not realize that the & is representing & in the URL. How would I tell "Request" that the links are expected to be xHTML compliant?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3361

Answers (3)

ChrisAnnODell
ChrisAnnODell

Reputation: 1350

You need to UrlEncode your links, not HTMLEncode.

The first one gives & = %26 while the latter (the one you're using) gives & = & and the handler is breaking the parameters by the first & in &

Upvotes: 5

joelmdev
joelmdev

Reputation: 11773

The ampersand in your url that separates your GET (ie querystring/request) parameters still needs to be an '&'. If you're displaying an ampersand in actual XHTML, that's when you will use the XHTML encoding. XHTML encoding an ampersand for use as a parameter separator in a URL will not be recognized as such.

Upvotes: 0

competent_tech
competent_tech

Reputation: 44941

You want to use Request.QueryString, not Request.

For example:

context.Request.QueryString["param1"]
context.Request.QueryString["param2"]

Upvotes: 2

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